Mellotronists

It's an M300 in the clip though and going by the sounds the partially
recorded, but unreleased at the time, 2nd album by Simon Dupree and
the Big Sound and the first Gentle Giant album also make use of an M300. 

Cast your ears towards the Mellotron solo on 'Giant' and the quiet
middle section of 'Why Not?' from the first GG album. Aren't those
M300 strings? 

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Haley
<mellomancinci@...> wrote:
>
> Andy is right, the tron used on both all of the Simon Dupree
recordings and the first self titled Gentle Giant album is a MK II
(Kerry Minnear refers in the notes to the new Gentle Giant box set
that the original MK was pretty beat up by the time he used it on that
first Gentle Giant album and the early recordings contained on "Under
Construction.)  The M300 appears on "Acquiring the Taste" and "Three
Friends", the M400 on "Octopus."  The give away M300 sound is also
found on recordings (excluding BJH, the Moodies, and Wooly's solo
output) on recordings by Frumpy, Earth & Fire, the Dutch band Drama,
Ekseption's first five albums before Rick Van Der Linden bought his
M400), the Italian band Planetarium's album "Infinity", the French
group Nino Rerrer's recording "Metronomie, according to Andy's
mellotron list, Fludd's "Cock On" and the earliest M300 recording  I
am aware of, Boudewijn de Groot's 1968 album "Nacht and Ontij" (for
some strange reason M300s seemed to proliferate in the
>  Netherlands.)